Realistically, who could beat him...

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Realistically, who could beat him...

realistically, who could beat him? not only are his in game powers really powerful but if you think about it logically he should be able to do a lot more than just that (he can basically shapeshift into whatever he wants so he can do a lot more than just what they could fit into the game). also, he gets stronger the more biomass he consumes so he could definitely become even more powerful than he ever was in the games if given enough time. also, this guy basically negates all attacks. he survived a nuke because the one little bit of flesh he had left just ate a bunch of pigeons and rats and used their biomass to regenerate his body. his theoretical power cap is insane. imagine if he consumed all the biomass on earth. he would literally become more powerful than a bretheren moon. not only that but he would become basically a god intellect. imagine having the combined neurons of every creature on earth. he is literal lovecraftian god potential.

also prototype 2 isnt canon and he would no diff james heller

realistically, who could beat him?

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realistically, who could beat him?

Did you not play the second game?

Even if you classify him as a planetary threat level, that's still pretty low on the power level chart, when the powercreep in fiction has reached the point where writers casually create multiverse level threats.

Yeah but the more humans he absorbed the more 'human' he got, leading to him sacrificing himself to save the city, despite the real Alex Mercer doing the opposite. I bet in a theoretical scenario where he eats half of humanity he probably just meditates like some buddist monk who's reached Nirvana.

who says he would stop at just a single planet though? why wouldnt he then go on to consume more planets? he could literally reach flood-tier power

wouldnt he then go

One does not simply "go" in space. You have poor understanding of the scale and nature of space. A simple cellural parasite is less than nothing even on interstellar level. I'm not even taking into consideration scenarios where it has to go against a technologically superior civilization, just leaving the solar system, if not the planet, would be pretty much impossible.

I'm glad you agree with me anon, but his cells are destructible, any sufficient burst damage superhero can kill him like the nuke did.
The TRUE power of the blacklight virus is if he put a single cell on an island on the other side of the world hed be functionally immortal, constantly regenerating no matter who kills him.
Also his powerset is in general weaker than timestop, hes just like peak for his tier of super powers.

He wouldn't be the flood because he doesn't exponentially grow smarter by consuming biomass. The flood became psychically able to warp dimensions.

combined intellect of every being on earth

still cant figure out FTL

well in that case no one can build an FTL device therefore nothing would be more powerful than him anyway

The angry nigga from the 2nd game defeated him

You don't need to go *faster* than light. Relativistic speed is more than enough to annihilate anything alive on a planet.

>combined intellect of every being on earth

when is that established? Memories, yeah, but intellect?

realistically, who could beat him?

Its not, Mercer is not a hyperintelligent character.

Hey Alex, your man-eating days are over.

ok but why not though. if you have as much biomass as you want and you can do whatever you want with it why cant he just grow a really big brain.

tie in DC graphic novel

2 never canon begin with

Youd still have to learn with that brain. Besides, within prototype Mercer doesn't manage to freely control his biology, only shapeshifting into people who already exist and such. He could probably make a brain tissue mass in the same way he makes blades and claws, but he probably wouldn't instantly know more after doing it.

Can dante even kill mercer? Idk if dante's fire magic attacks are strong enough to keep mercer from regenerating.

I bet a second game would be really cool

Easy

ENOUGH OF YOUR FUCKING WEIRD, FUCKING RAMBLING, SHIT!

Kills Mercer

Jesus christ, YES nigga Dante would fucking win. He's taken down literal gods of hell. Why the fuck are Prototypefags such dickriders for Alex? Are you gay for him or some shit? News flash: Kirby would beat his ass too.

consume all the biomass in the world

grow planet sized brain

learn how to build FTL device using planet sized brain

go to other planets to consume all their biomass

repeat

mercer doesnt manage to freely control his biology

this is the only thing nerfing him. if he could overcome this he could become multigalactic tier. maybe pariah can do this and he has the true cosmic horror power potential.

Just feed him with this catboy.

FTL is impossible, for multiple reasons.

strapping every brain together won't let you break physical laws of the universe.

I'm not bitching about power scaling I'm bitching about attack potency.
Alex Mercer is an exclusively hax and endurance character, at most capable of destroying a tank and helicopter with repeated attacks. But he could fucking eat anything organic that he could wound, and regenerate from a single cell. Can dante simply obliterate him, because from playing DMC1 it sure looks like dante just stabs and cuts people.

why did the virus stick with alex mercer consciousness with everyone it consumes and regenerating multiple times even from very little, its still alex mercer

I'm not bitching about power scaling I'm bitching about power scaling

Alex mercer is a [insert throating noises here]

Just say you're gay for him dude. I think people would be more accepting.

Pretty sure his consciousness and willpower is just imprinted in the virus and nobody else has the will to take over the virus mass until heller.
Its not like graveminds where its a hivemind, its more like theres a dominant personality.

powerlevel above planetary = retarded
I can't take beings that can make galaxy implode seriously

Its not like graveminds where its a hivemind, its more like theres a dominant personality.

yes but i would think that the more it consumes the more noise making it harder to stay dominant in this case

Call me when dante shows this feat in game.

Interesting genetic strain you got there, kiddo. It's mine now. Enjoy being my cancer slave for all eternity.

hoodie and pitbull

What dev mean by this?

Been able to since DMC1. If you actually finished the game instead of being a retard you would know.

I never saw dante nuclear slash in dmc 1. I don't think the shit he did against mundus was anywhere near that cautious hero clip.

Dante can burn him to nothing in his Sin Devil Trigger form.

also all that mass has to come from something, he can't just spawn from a drop of blood into a whole body

he'd kill him easily, honestly.

Sin Devil Trigger form.

Idk about what this is i stopped halfway through dmc2

I don't think

Should've stopped there. We know.

Pld, blm, whm smn, blu, pct, rdm, yes
Drk, gnb, mnk maybe
Drg rpr nin dnc limit break 3
Brd mch vpr no

It's his Super Saiyan 3 Ultra Devil mode where he can create localized black holes and stop time and instantly teleport and doesn't afraid of anything

Like half of the Toehoe cast. They can stay out of his range because of flight and bombard him with magic missiles until he runs out of biomass or just use one of their retardedly overpowered abilities like infinite time stop or being able to destroy things by crushing an "eye" that every object or being has.

well its a good thing WOL is all of those, canonically.

he can create localized black holes and stop time and instantly teleport

I beat DMC5 and no he can't do any of those

Black holes absolutely wreck mercer. No more questions from me.

Demolition

Judgement

Advent

Demolition

pic related, it's an explosion

Judgement

Slow down for dramatic effect at best, enemies still move and zero mention of a timestop in its description

Advent

"Move at hyper speed, reaching the enemy in the blink of an eye."

I wonder if XCOM could reverse engineer the virus to give everyone Blacklight.

brain size has no correlation with intelligence

Not that im complaining, but whats with the sudden Prototype threads? Have there been rumblings about a third installment? still never forgiving them for canceling the prototype/infamous crossover threequel

Also, goku could probably beat up mercer. Especially P2's Mercer, who apparently ate a shortbus

Goku would absolutely destroy mercer. Goku would never lose a fight to mercer, and as soon as goku learns kamehameha thats all he needs to kill mercer. Thats the first arc of og dragonball goku.

he'd fire Mercer into the Sun if he somehow was strong enough to just get pushed by the wave.

which he isn't, especially current Goku who has as much power stacking as can be conceived for a character.

Could Gae Bolg actually kill Mercer?

can it hurt you metaphysically or do any sort of area damage beyond "never missing"?

because if it just can't miss, I don't imagine it can kill him.

The spear has a curse that can continuously hurt you even if Cu misses.
Though regeneration can partially negate its effect.

Diarmuid is more likely to do damage since one of his spears completely negates healing.

The wounds Gae Bolg inflicts are unhealable. So yes with enough time.

I always forgot about him for some reasons even though he's actually very versatile and annoying to deal with.

Yeah it'd be more fun for vsbattlefags to determine the weakest characters that could beat him
Every series and their moms have reality warping universe busters these days

There is no 2nd game. Every normally functioning person doesn't accept its horrible story, the tie-in comic that gave Alex the single most RETARDED reason to go evil, nor accepts the downgrade that is Heller and his 1-dimentional angry black man character that is also pretty hypocritical.

Posting a game that doesn't exist

spider-man beats venom all the time

alex≈venom

Therefore Spider-Man wins.

Yeah no, the guy freely controls biomass, there's not a single mutation or disease that he couldn't undo probably.
However he would honestly fit pretty well in 40k since he's unkillable even by their standards and would exist in a perpetual spiteful tug of war with the chaos gods, who he would never serve despite their supernatural quality, because he is probably too self-centered for that, and the gods themselves would be offended at his refusal and ability to deflect all influences.
There's also no telling who would absorb who if he ever gets caught by a hive fleet.

Advent

I fucking love that one.

Mercer isn't healing though, he's just replacing it with more viral bits.

I'm not great fan of 2's story, but lets be real, Heller and Mercer are about equivalent as protagonists. Having replayed both fairly recently, I can confidently say they are both two dimensional edgelords

And that would've been fine if they didn't make Mercer both evil AND retarded in 2. I mean ffs he makes infected rank and file, who are even dumber than him, for no benefit and in fact multiple obvious downsides

2's gamefeel is much improved though. They really did nail the power progression from low street level to city-buster

Mercer is far from unkillable.

they could just blow up the planet he's on for instance.

there are stronger version of his sort of bio-mutation ability in fiction.

Capella from RE:Zero blows Mercer out of the water, and is far harder to kill than him, and can become anything living that she knows about, and not just an immitation, and can also become multiple things at once, and every atom of her body can act indepentendly, and nothing about her can be destroyed.

every atom of her body can act indepentendly, and nothing about her can be destroyed.

This is the point where this powerset becomes complete bullshit

Powersets jump the shark well before then

Ironically, I would consider endgame Mercer/Heller to be around the absolute limit for how powerful characters should be

City-level is enough to be very impressive without being completely disconnected from your frame of reference

its not even the strongest ability in the setting, it is however, one of the harder to deal with, since she can also transmutate anyone she touches.

regardless, all of the Witch Authorities have huge weaknesses that have to be learned by the cast, since Witch Authorities all break some fundamental aspect of reality or some such.

the Witch of Vanity/Vainglory's ability is much more invincible, as she can control Causality, even for herself posthumously meaning she can simply say she was never killed and was infact, behind you, or say you never even left your house to go fight her.

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